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PHYSICS OF PLASMAS
卷 24, 期 8, 页码 -出版社
AIP Publishing
DOI: 10.1063/1.4997765
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [41474139, 41421003]
- Chinese Scholarship Council
- NASA [NAS5-02099]
- German Ministry for Economy and Technology
- German Center for Aviation and Space (DLR) [50 OC 0302]
We present new observations of electron distributions and the accompanying waves during the current sheet activities at similar to 60 R-E in the geomagnetic tail detected by the ARTEMIS ( Acceleration, Reconnection, Turbulence, and Electrodynamics of the Moon's Interaction with the Sun) spacecraft. We find that electron flat-top distribution is a common feature near the neutral sheet of the tailward flowing plasmas, consistent with the electron distributions that are shaped in the reconnection region. Whistler mode waves are generated by the anisotropic electron temperature associated with the electron flat-top distributions. These whistler mode waves are modulated by low frequency ion scale waves that are possibly excited by the high-energy ions injected during the current sheet instability. The magnetic and electric fields of the ion scale waves are in phase with electron density variations, indicating that they are compressional ion cyclotron waves. Our observations present examples of the dynamical processes occurring during the current sheet activities far downstream of the geomagnetic tail. Published by AIP Publishing.
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